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Thread: "Wolf-like" creature shot in Montana.

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    I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright noooow.

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    http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/...-dna-test.html
    “The lab compared the animal’s DNA with thousands of other DNA samples from wolves, coyotes and dogs. The conclusion was clear – this animal is a gray wolf from the northern Rocky Mountains," the statement read.

    Montana FWP officials initially weren’t certain what the creature was when a rancher fatally shot it on his property.

    The agency said an inspection of the animal at its laboratory “revealed a relatively normal looking, dark brown wolf.”
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    “The wolf was a non-lactating female, which means she didn’t have a litter of pups,” they explained, noting that “any unique physical features she has might also appear in her siblings or parents and may continue to be passed along by others in her family.”

    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service geneticist Mary Curtis says it’s not unusual for there to be physical variations of animals within a species."
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    Yep. Dire wolf...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Idaho45guy View Post
    Yep. Dire wolf...
    Canis Lupus Dirus? You'd have to go looking for that DNA chain in the amber or possibly at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits. Dire wolf disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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    DNA results are back. It’s a gray wolf.

    ETA, as pointed out right above.
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    Quote Originally Posted by smokeywolf View Post
    Canis Lupus Dirus? You'd have to go looking for that DNA chain in the amber or possibly at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits. Dire wolf disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
    I was joking...

    After all, it WAS the government in charge of identifying the species...
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    ...in an effort to rival internet conspiracy theorists who haven't seen it. I am mindful of Ockham's Razor. The ordinary straight razor, which was quite old-fashioned in the Middle Ages because complicating it couldn't make it work better, if as well. Similarly, for any phenomenon, the simple explanation is more likely to be true than a complicated one.

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    Government said it was a weather ballon or light refecting off of fog or an ordinary wolf. Take your pick

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    Well now I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. The outcry over the senseless murder of an endangered and lovable creature....the gray wolf. The protests and mobs demanding the head of the rancher, they will have named the poor deceased creature....the murder of Wanda Wolf....and the ensuing demand for justice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imashooter2 View Post
    DNA results are back. It’s a gray wolf.

    ETA, as pointed out right above.
    Welll that's what the govmit Wants you to believe anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thumbcocker View Post
    Welll that's what the govmit Wants you to believe anyway.
    C'mon, you wouldn't believe it if you'd tested the DNA in your own lab
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    I thought werewolves reverted to human form when dead....lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by shooterg View Post
    I thought werewolves reverted to human form when dead....lol
    Indigenous werewolves, yes. This one was a "ZombyWoof," bred in a top-secret laboratory at the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.
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    And if it had been taken in the right season when fur prime I would call it a big coyote!!!

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